June 19, 2014
Is Living on the Dole Bad For You?
As a proponent of a UBI, I often encounter some version of the surfer objection: what if some people who could work instead spend their entire income allowance on surfing or drinking or…
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July 19, 2012
The Implicit Errors in Debts to Society Arguments
Suppose–purely hypothetically–a prominent politician uses the following argument to explain why we should pay more taxes: If you are rich, you relied upon background infrastructure, social norms, institutions, the rule…